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[filipjohansson]

[1shan]

Hello @filip
You could insert a normal strain result and then change the coordinate system to the cylindrical one. Then you change the axis to Y and you will get the strain in tangential direction. I hope this is what you want to do? Also you can choose nodes(cntrl+N) at the desired location, right click>named selection and scope the normal strain result object to this named selection. This way you get the normal strains in tangential direction only at the selected nodes.
Regards Ishan.

[filipjohansson]

Hey Ishan thank you kindly for your reply.
the combination with named selection at the cylindrical "global" coordinate system is exactly what I was trying to accomplish.
The average values in 5-10 surroundingnodes get close to my strains in the x-direction from the 10 different coordinate systems so both methods seem to work. I do, however, still not get the results I was expecting, so I might need to look into my boundary conditions and the way I apply the forces.

Again, thank you. Now I know my method of finding the results wasn't useless.
Have a great day :)